Coach Profile
1899-1902 • Northwestern
One defining program at Northwestern.
Charles Hollister's coaching record is 27-16-4, highlighted by seasons at Northwestern from 1899 to 1902.
Charles Hollister coached 4 seasons, won 61.7%, and posted an average SRS of -2.2. Best season: 1900 Northwestern. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Northwestern
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 39.9.
Quick Answers
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
47 countable games, 61.7% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Northwestern.
3 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
Illinois-Northwestern games in this dataset.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 27, 1902. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Active comparison point
7-2-3 • SRS 2.2 • SP Overall —
Win %
70.8%
YoY SRS
+7.0
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Northwestern
1899-1902 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -2.2 • Win % 61.7%
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Charles Hollister
Insufficient sample
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1899-1902 • 27-16-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 6.0 baseline
+1.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.4 during vs -12.9 baseline
+11.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Northwestern 1900
7-2-3 • SRS 2.2
Biggest Improvement
Northwestern 1900
7-2-3 • 7.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Northwestern 1899
6-6 • SRS -4.8
Biggest Drop
Northwestern 1901
8-2-1 • -6.1 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Northwestern | 1902 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -2.4 | — | — | — | +1.5 | -27.3% | Season summary |
| Northwestern | 1901 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | — | -3.9 | — | — | — | -6.1 | +6.4% | Season summary |
| Northwestern | 1900 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 70.8% | — | — | 2.2 | — | — | — | +7.0 | +20.8% | Season summary |
| Northwestern | 1899 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Partial season |
Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 2.8
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.1
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.8
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.6
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 2.7
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Avg SRS -3.1 • Peak SRS 2.6 • 5 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 3.0
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